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Who was the first Satyagrahi of individual Satyagraha?

The Individual Satyagraha Movement or Personal Satyagraha Movement was launched by the Indian National Congress as proposed by Mahatma Gandhi on October 17, 1940. This movement constituted of individual Satyagrahis as selected by Gandhiji speaking against the inclusion of India in the Second World War in a public place, in a nonviolent manner. The first satyagrahi thus selected was Acharya Vinoba Bhave , who was arrested and jailed for three months.


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